no THE TWO-MINUTE PACERS 



but required lots of slow work and had he been fortunate 

 enough to fall into Walter Cox's hands instead of mine, I 

 think they would still be shooting at his record. 



"I rigged him with an open bridle, plain leather bit and 

 shod him with a six ounce bar shoe in front with calk straight 

 across the shoe and small heel calks. Behind he wore 

 three and a half ounce shoes with bar, the latter merely to 

 strengthen the shoe. 



"The last two years I had him he could beat any horse 

 that was racing. I know you know how hard I tried to 

 match him against Dan Patch, but McHenry would never 

 let them make the race. The nearest I ever came to getting 

 a crack at Dan Patch was at Memphis, Tenn., where we were 

 both on the program to go the same day. I went with Prince 

 Alert in two minutes flat and McHenry would not start 

 his horse. That night McHenry said to Secretary Murray 

 Howe, in the Gayoso Hotel that he wanted Dan on the card 

 for the next day and I said: Tut Prince Alert on too. I 

 will go within ten minutes of the time he starts and will go 

 a faster mile than he will go.' Dan Patch went first, the 

 next day, and they hung out 2:00% and I never saw 

 McHenry drive harder. Ten minutes afterward I came out 

 with Prince Alert, went the mile and they hung out 2:0014' 



"As these two miles were on consecutive days it was the 

 expressed opinion of Mr. Budd Doble and Mr. Geers that 

 it was a remarkable performance. The had coaxed me 

 not to start the horse the second day as they both said no 

 horse had ever gone two fast miles on two consecutive days." 



In 1901 Prince Alert had been such a formidable an- 

 tagonist for the rest of the fast pacers that the opening of 

 the campaign of 1902 found him with no other opponent 

 than Anaconda who, as events speedily showed was reaching 

 the end of a great career as a pacer. He and Prince Alert 

 engaged in seven special races and the latter was returned 

 the winner in six of them. Prince Alert won at Brighton 

 Beach in 2:031/4, 2:04^4; at Hartford in the same time; at 

 Providence Anaconda beat him in 2:02%, 2:02. Over the 

 half mile tracks at Bethlehem, Pa., and Trenton, N. J., Prince 

 Alert was the winner and he paced the Bethlehem track in 



